Matthew 9:6. Application of the argument, stated by all three Evangelists in the same terms.

The Son of man, here equivalent to the Messiah.

Hath authority. ‘Power' is not so exact

On earth. Christ claimed and exercised this ‘authority' as the incarnate Son of God, or as ‘the Son of man on earth,' having brought it with Him from heaven, as the One who is at once like unto us, and above us all as the crown and perfection of humanity.

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Old Testament